Timeline for Using mathoverflow as a blog
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Feb 6 at 10:37 | comment | added | HenrikRüping | I am certainly guilty of 4. It happens quite often that I seem to be stuck somewhere, then I force myself to turn this into a precise question and afterwards an idea appears. I think this is more common and maybe not even a bad thing. | |
| Feb 4 at 1:44 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | @Nemo Do you have an example of that happening? | |
| Feb 2 at 9:39 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 1 at 22:25 | comment | added | YCor | In practice these questions are quickly closed, aren't they? Is there a need to formalize this? | |
| Feb 1 at 2:11 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a minor typo
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| Feb 1 at 1:00 | comment | added | Will Sawin | My understanding is that the number of reasons to close a question is limited, and I don't think this is worth getting rid of any of the existing ones. | |
| Jan 31 at 23:38 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Are these questions/answers well received? Why don't they get simply downvoted into oblivion if they are of bad quality? | |
| Jan 31 at 21:42 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | My view is that there is no need for any formal policy or new reason to close a question. I agree that your four example behaviors are undesirable, but if someone is a first-time offender, then it probably betrays a lack of experience rather than anything else, and one can hope that gentle advice in the comments can correct it. If someone ignores the advice and persists in the behavior, then I'm not sure that the problem will be solved by inventing new rules for closing posts and aggressively enforcing said rules. Too much policing can also cause the MO ethos to deteriorate. | |
| Jan 31 at 1:18 | comment | added | David White | +1 because I agree with you that MO should not be used this way. And, I think the question is good and on-topic for meta. | |
| Jan 30 at 21:49 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jan 30 at 15:45 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | In case it is interesting for some people around here, there is this discussion on Mathematics Meta: Users using Math Stack Exchange as a de facto blog. (Of course, we should keep in mind that the two communities are rather different.) | |
| Jan 30 at 15:44 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Perhaps the tag (on-topic) would be suitble here. And maybe (close-reasons) and (policy)? | |
| Jan 30 at 15:39 | history | asked | Alec Rhea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |